• How to extract forensic artifacts from Linux swap

    In order to expand the address space that is effectively usable by a process and to expand the amount of dynamic RAM, modern operating systems use the method known as swapping. In Linux systems this typically shows up in the… read more »
  • Technology Roundup #18

    “Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important” - Bill Gates Baby Yoda Flies to The ISS With The SpaceX Crew Sure, we might not be… read more »
  • Musics for a Game Never Born

    Several year ago (at least 15), I've been involved in a exciting project: the development of a video game. Not as developer, but as musician! The game was an old-style platform, but with a realistic physic. When I began collaboration… read more »
  • iOS Forensic: full disk acquisition using checkra1n jailbreak

    A simple step-to-step tutorial for iOS full acquisition. The release of Checkm8 iOS exploit, in september 2019, was a bit topic: an exploit could be used on every iOS device made over an approximately 5-year period had major consequences. Checkm8… read more »
  • How to detect Cobalt Strike activities in memory forensics

    A brief update on Cobalt Strike detection in forensics analysis, with a couple of new resources. Some days ago I've published some informations about CobaltStrikeScan [1], a useful tool to identify Cobalt Strike beacons in processes memory, today l'd like… read more »
  • Jeffrey Paul: your computer isn't yours

    Some privacy concerns about Apple Silicon and MacOs Big Sur. The latest features added by Big Sur in combo with the Silicon M1 processor have some dirty little secrets. A path started some time ago and now completed with a… read more »
  • FAMA: Forensic Analysis For Mobile Apps

    FAMA (Forensic Analysis For Mobile Apps) is a forensic framework developed in Python (2.7+) by Lab of Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics at IPLeiria (LabCIF). FAMA is an Android extraction and analysis framework, useful for easily dump user data from a device… read more »
  • Privacy Roundup #18

    “It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.“ - Noam Chomsky Chrome to block tab-nabbing attacks Google will deploy a new security feature in Chrome next year to prevent tab-nabbing, a type of web attack that allows… read more »
  • Linux Forensics: Memory Capture and Analysis

    A tutorial by 13Cubed that explains how to use Microsoft's AVML to acquire memory on Linux systems… read more »
  • CobaltStrikeScan: identify CobaltStrike beacons in processes memory

    Cobalt Strike was born as a penetration testing tool, useful for Red Teaming activities. However, several threat actors started using it in real attacks. So, a proper detection of Cobal Strike activities during an incidend respose process is extremely important.… read more »
  • Cybersecurity Roundup #18

    “If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked”  ― Richard Clarke Grayshift, The Startup That Breaks Into Unlocked IPhones For The Feds, Raises $47 Million Grayshift, the startup… read more »
  • Digital Forensic Basics: an analysis methodology flow chart

    Data extraction, data acquisition, data analysis? Let's try to make it a little clearer! Let's start from the beginning... In the early 1980s, when personal computers began to be more accessible to consumers, however, increasing their use in criminal activities,… read more »
  • Technology Roundup #17

    “Technology is best when it brings people together” - Matt Mullenweg NASA and Nokia Team Up to Bring 4G to the Moon The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced last week that it has awarded Nokia’s Bell Labs to… read more »
  • Privacy Roundup #17

    ”A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters. Privacy is… read more »
  • Cybersecurity Roundup #17

    “It’s funny to us as we’re so used to worms and viruses being bad news rather than making the world a better place.“ - Graham Cluley Top reason to apply October, 2020’s Microsoft patches: Ping of Death Redux Microsoft is… read more »
  • How to extract sysdiagnose logs for forensic purposes on iOS

    Sysdiagnose logs allow developers to extract information from iOS devices, and it is used for understanding bug occurrences.However, this log is also useful for forensic purposes when a full device acquisition is not possible/available. Sysdiagnose logs generation Unlike crash Logs,… read more »
  • Privacy Roundup #16

    “If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.” - Philip Zimmermann Breach at food delivery service Chowbus reportedly affects hundreds of thousands of customers Two months after securing a $33 million funding round from investors, food delivery startup Chowbus is… read more »
  • Technology Roundup #16

    “First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With… read more »
  • Cybersecurity Roundup #16

    “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and few minutes of cyber-incident to ruin it.” — Stephane Nappo Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 bypasses the Windows 10 Firewall The Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 will bypass the Windows 10… read more »
  • CloudBrute: a multi-platform Cloud Enumeration Tool

    CloudBrute is a multiple platform tool that finds and enumerates a target company’s cloud infrastructure, files, open buckets, applications, and databases hosted on top cloud providers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, DigitalOcean, Alibaba, Vultr, Linode), and possibly applications behind proxy servers. The tool [1], developed in GO by security researcher… read more »